Soloing Warbringers and Elite Mobs in Pandaria as Protection

So I've recently managed to ding level 90 on my Paladin. And was wondering if anyone has attempted to solo Warbringers or any of the Elite Mobs as protection?

I do have a Blood Death Knight and its pretty easy - 6 mins and under in 490+ gear. I've seen Warlocks and heard of Hunters solo them. Have even seen Brewmasters, but no one seemed to have mention Paladins.

Ive personally never seen a Pally solo them before, I dont believe their kit is suited for warbringers. If your able to escape the fear consistently and beable to tank the 200k hits then you can manage it, but I dunno how possible that is.

I've soloed warbringers a few things, takes a while though. If you're geared enough they don't hit very hard, and if you're really in a pinch you can WoG yourself. DK/Monks are probably better suited for it, but Paladins can do it.

Not all of the warbringers spawn with the fear ability. If you're lucky to get the Spirit/Scarab/Front Cone/Meteor abilities, you shouldn't have any problem.

So I've recently managed to ding level 90 on my Paladin. And was wondering if anyone has attempted to solo Warbringers or any of the Elite Mobs as protection?...

Has anyone attempted it?

It's a joke. UBS for extra bubbles, basically use trinket (if available) and bubble for fears. Holy Avenger in a pinch, if a fear is coming and a spirit is out use GoAK, etc. It does take a while though, and if you're undergeared you might have some issues.

The dread wastes one with the klaxxi buffs is just super easy, period.

Soloing warbringers is really easy as prot.You can move the warbringer away from the spirit also since you can stun it twice,once with holy wrath and one more with hammer.
After that I tend to stand in most of the shit just for vengeance.Break fear with bubble (if human its even easier) and when you get feared and cant break it just use a def cd before it.
Anyway the point is that you can solo them.First time I did it was with around 510ilvl full ret gear and lfr sword and board.

The only minor annoyance are the fearing ones, but use UbS (and human trinket lulz) to escape many of them. I've never used any cooldowns on them since getting 522 gear, but I suppose they could be needed at lower gear levels.

Paladins don't have quite the solo ability of bDK's but we're close, and really excel at things like warbringers. GL.

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Soloing warbringers is really easy as prot.You can move the warbringer away from the spirit also since you can stun it twice,once with holy wrath and one more with hammer.

With holy avenger and avenging wrath up, I let the spirit hit me on purpose for vengeance (esp. with the offensive CD's up), but otherwise you can stun them, kite them or use defensive CD's, or if you're brave, let them attack you for more vengeance (gear allowing of course).

Ive personally never seen a Pally solo them before, I dont believe their kit is suited for warbringers. If your able to escape the fear consistently and beable to tank the 200k hits then you can manage it, but I dunno how possible that is.

Just pick up the trinket from the Dominance Offensive that allows you to escape CC effects once a minute. They're quite easy to solo even without that item, but that can be very helpful for escaping the fear periodically. Couple that with Unbreakable Spirit and you very rarely have to eat any full fears.

You didn't mention your ilevel, but it's likely doable starting around 485-ish, although it will still take a long time and you have little to no room for error (exceptions exist for exceptionally skilled players of course). The biggest issue for paladins would be the fear, it lasts a long time and you have no short fear breakers. These are their abilities (warbringers have 4 of any of these abilities at a time):

Each ability has a 3.0 second cast time, so there is plenty of time to avoid or prepare for them. The key to winning is to know how to handle the fears. Rotate cooldowns for each fear. Renew sacred shield just before they cast fear. Your bubble can remove the fear, and if you are human, you have a nice trinket too. You can also try to farm for the pvp trinket in Krasarang Wilds - 1 min cooldown, super helpful, probably to the point of trivializing the fear. You can expect them to hit you with each ability once every 30 seconds or so, so with that trinket you can break out every other fear.

I like DP for soloing warbringers, because although it is RNG, often enough it works in your favor in that you get a few extended Shield buffs that will last for a good portion of the fear.

Since you've soloed them on your DK before, you likely know how to handle the other abilities, it's the fear in combination with something else that I find mostly kills people. When you get to higher gear level, you can just stand in stuff/let the spirit hit you for vengeance to make the fight go faster.

Ive personally never seen a Pally solo them before, I dont believe their kit is suited for warbringers. If your able to escape the fear consistently and beable to tank the 200k hits then you can manage it, but I dunno how possible that is.

Warbringers are ridiculously easy to solo as a prot pally, especially if you gear for haste.
The mobs on dino island are much more challenging due to timing your cooldowns to survive (I pull packs of 3-4 dino's at a time) and even they go down with little effort.